Update Well, the “Veterans” have really beaten me up since my first visit in November 2008. However, by following the program I have dropped 20 ...
General Krulak Obituary This Obituary from the Wall Street Journal tells a history that I never knew. Read to the end to see how he was resc...
Fuel Issue With all that fire, I would think some fuel was left.
What Did You Say? I receive a small disability payment, mostly for a cancer believed to be caused by Agent Orange. In going through the proc...
Joe... ...those blades seem too big to fly low. I believe those blades are some 38 feet in diameter. Not much room there to get below 25 feet o...
100% Availability I remember a different story about 100% availability. Sometime in 1970 MAG 16 had an anniversary. I do recall it was on a...
SAS Appreciation Day Our maintenance chief once had me fly a "D" model from Phu Bai to Marble single pilot with no SAS. I do not think I would w...
SAS Appreciation Day My maintanence chief once assigned me to fly an H46 with no SAS (and of course no ATS) single pilot from Phu Bai to Marble M...
Call Signs It must have taken a staff of sixty or more at headquarters to think these things up!
That list... ...is impressive. I calculate 600 USMC production aircraft. Contrast that with the planned buy of "as many as 360" MV-22 O...
A Thought... To refresh some memories: HMM 263, attached to Mag 26, was stationed at Quantico at this time having been "posted" there upon r...